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Waste-to-Energy

Trash in Onondaga County takes a somewhat different journey than trash in most U.S. communities.

Instead of going right to a landfill, most of our community’s trash is sent to the local Waste-to-Energy Facility, where it is turned into enough electricity to power 30,000 households a year. This reduces the amount of material that needs to be landfilled by 90%.

It also allows extraction of metals for recycling, which would otherwise go to a landfill.